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Some edited footages I shot during a New York City trip for
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival and the
New York Asian Film Festival in June 2005. Nearly mugged wandering
around. It's a little tribute to this lovely city and people but NOT
to Bush and his administration. It got this wonderful creative aura
energy that hard to explain. Anyway, this video here will tell on
how I felt being in the "City That Never Sleeps". Edited with the
background music of U2 from the album "All that you can't leave
behind, New York - 2000 ".

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I produce or direct people-driven stories and news related to muslims.net
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Definition. At times I design, direct and produce on-air promotions,
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videos. Versatile with AVID, Final Cut Studio nonlinear editing suite,
Adobe After Effects, ProAnimator, Photoshop and Illustrator. Enjoy
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

U.S. base on remote island of Diego Garcia, has become another Guantánamo

On this small, remote island of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean halfway between Africa and Indonesia, the United States has one of the most secretive military bases in the world. From its position almost 10,000 miles closer to the Persian Gulf than the east coast of the United States, this huge U.S. air and naval base has been a major, if little known, launch pad for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the past year, the Bush administration has made improvements that point toward its use in a possible attack on Iran. The administration recently admitted what it had long denied and what journalists, human rights investigators, and others had long suspected: The island has also been part of the CIA’s secret “rendition” program for captured terrorist suspects.

While few know about the base on Diego Garcia – it has long been off-limits to all non-military personnel — even fewer know how it came into being. To create the base, the United States, with the help of Great Britain, exiled all the indigenous people of Diego Garcia and the surrounding Chagos Archipelago. Between 1968 and 1973, U.S. and U.K. officials forcibly removed around 2,000 people, called Chagossians, 1,200 miles away to islands in the western Indian Ocean. Left on the docks of Mauritius and the Seychelles with no resettlement assistance, the Chagossians, whose ancestry in Chagos dated to the 18th century, have grown deeply impoverished in exile.

Diego Garcia has become another Guantánamo in more ways than one: The product of years of deception and lies, a far more secretive detention facility than the Cuban prison, the cause of immense suffering and pain for an entire people...

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About Me

Hatz is a designer/producer exploring abstract kinetic systems through diverse digital media arts including unique 2D/3D motion design, current affair/travel documentary, music videos, corporate videos, short films and creative design. Born in Johor, raised and educated in Singapore. Currently a part-time postgrad student (consistently missing lectures and tutorials because of my job...arhhh! or should I just quit?), a seeker of the path of truth (struggling to attain the experiential knowledge of God) and commissioned producer for global broadcaster base in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Updated: 2008, I will stop school for awhile to be with 'Bapak' and move my work/studio base back to Singapore.